Theological foundations of our life and work together . . .

Who is Jesus?
Jesus is the founder of the church, whose gospel has grasped our lives as God’s eternal word, comforting, challenging, and directing us, like nothing in this world, in redeeming ways.

What is the church?
The church is a way of being together, organized to bring the gospel of Jesus to bear on all of life, for the sake of the future that God is calling into being and calling us to serve.

What is redemption?
Redemption is the event of God’s loving embrace, fitting us for a better tomorrow by transforming human ambiguity, anxiety, resentment, and fear, into a faith, hope, love, and courage that liberate us from destructive and self-destructive ways.

What is service?
Service is prayerfully considered response to Jesus’ command that we should love God
with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves.

Our services follow an order of worship rooted in the 16th Century Reformation and Presbyterian emphasis on the significance of being the church reformed, always in process of being reformed according to the word of God and the call of the Holy Spirit. 

We embrace tradition with an openness and readiness for meaningful innovation.  We believe a fitting service of worship does at least three things: it points us away from what we already think and feel about ourselves and others and God; it points us toward the mystery of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived; and it opens, in us, gospel eyes and ears for the reality, truth, and presence of God speaking God’s own word to us, teaching us, and changing us.

On the first Sunday of each month, our service of worship includes a sharing of the Lord’s Supper.  We practice open communion.  That means you don’t need to be a member of this or any other Presbyterian church in order to share the Lord’s Supper with us.

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) . . .

Our name comes from the Greek word, presbuteros.  Greek is the language in which the New Testament first was written.  In Greek, presbuteros (literally:  “presbyter”) means elder.  In the early church, elders were persons chosen for their wisdom and courage to lead and guide the church.

Our churches elect elders to serve equally with ministers in providing leadership at all levels— congregational (our church), local (Presbytery of Arkansas), regional (Synod of the Sun), and national (General Assembly).  

As Christians, we strive to profess and live the faith of the one, holy, catholic church.  As heirs of the 16th Century Reformation, we keep at the center of our striving a sound affirmation of God’s decision of grace, to be always lovingly at work among us, to fit us for the future that God is calling into being.

We embrace the PC (USA) constitution’s call to the church to participate in God’s activity in the world, in particular:  by healing and reconciling and binding up wounds; by ministering to the needs of the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the powerless;  by engaging in the struggle to free people from sin, fear, oppression, hunger, and injustice;  by giving itself and its substance to the service of those who suffer;  and by sharing with Christ in the establishing of his just, peaceable, and loving rule in the world.